Kira Linns „Her Wings“

Elsa Johanna Mohr (vocals, guitar) Pascal Klewer (trumpet, vocals) Carlotta Armbruster (trombone) Tobias Herzog (bass trombone, tuba) Nino Wenger (alto saxophone, flute) Anna Tsombanis (tenor saxophone, flute) Kira Linn (bariton saxophone, vocals) Felix Hauptmann (piano, syntheziser) Florian Herzog (electric bass) Joshua Knauber (drums)

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Baritone saxophonist and composer Kira Linn presents her new large ensemble, Her Wings. Poems by FLINTA writers such as Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, and Sappho form the core of her compositions. In them, she blends jazz and improvisation with singer-songwriter elements.
The texts, some of which are more than a hundred years old, take on a new musical form and thereby gain contemporary relevance. Between fully composed passages and improvisational freedom, a multi-layered soundscape emerges that highlights the individual expressiveness of each musician.
With “Her Wings,” Kira Linn fulfills her long-cherished wish to found her own large ensemble—while also providing a new stage for authors whose words continue to touch and move us to this day.

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Stadtgarten

The first concert in the newly built Stadtgarten concert hall in the mid-1980s launched a program unlike anything Germany had seen: an independent, artistically driven concert series devoted to contemporary improvised music. It was guided neither by attendance figures nor by public subsidies, yet it guaranteed musicians minimum fees and was run on professional terms. The conditions mattered just as much: an acoustically optimized, street-level concert space offering a strong setting for audiences and performers alike. Operations were financed through the adjoining hospitality business, the Stadtgarten restaurant and beer garden, a model that drew attention well beyond Germany.

Today the Stadtgarten Köln ranks among Europe's internationally recognized venues for contemporary and improvised music. The American magazine Down Beat features it regularly in its listings; it has received Germany's federal APPLAUS venue program award several times, including "Venue of the Year" in 2016, followed by the German Jazz Prize in the same category in 2022. More than 400 events across the full spectrum of contemporary music now take place there each year. Its international standing rests above all on the high proportion of demanding, experimental programming.

A programming mission of this kind depends on reliable public support. The venue's 30th anniversary in September 2016 opened that prospect: through a partnership between the City of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, programming work is being substantially strengthened, and from 2017 onward the Stadtgarten Köln is being developed step by step into a "European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music" – with the goal of becoming one of Europe's leading music centers.

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